SUPERLUX Screening and Discussion with Kimberley O’Neill: Technologies Of The Self

Wed 27 Mar 2019 / 6–8pm

Kimberley O’Neill has programmed this screening that complicates the idea of the subjective self-portrait. The selected works consider subjectivity as it is shaped by and entangled with environment, social bonds and technology, rather than depicting individuals as isolated within a narrow personal field.

O’Neill’s own work Fall Breaks Back into Winter (A Cover Version), 2018, uses diaristic and staged footage to contemplate the slippery slopes and seeping boundaries of illness. The backstory to the Beach Boy’s track Fall Breaks Back into Winter (Woody Woodpecker Symphony) provides a guiding reference to consider how trauma can be woven into technological materials, to then later find forms of release.